Jordan Schneider, Elizabeth Macarthur High School, has asked: Recently, the federal government has announced $2.8 billion worth of cuts to tertiary education, and self-education to free up funds for Gonski school reforms. $1.2 billion of this is being saved by making students pay the money back they get from scholarships once they hit a certain earning threshold. This is utterly astounding. How can you justify taking funding from tertiary education on the grounds of helping high school students?